Bank protecting device



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Patented May 8, 1934 UNITE STTES BANK PROTECTING DEVICE Ludwig Richard Stadtler, New York, N. Y.

Application December 9, 1931, Serial No. 579,951

1 Claim.

This invention relates to protecting devices for banks.

The invention will be fully and comprehensively understood from a consideration of the following detailed description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings which form part of the application with the understanding, however, that the improvement is capable of extended application and is not confined to the exact showing of the drawings nor to the precise construction described and, therefore, such changes and modifications may be made therefrom as do not affect the spirit of the invention nor exceed the scope thereof as expressed in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the apparatus of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section taken approximately on the line 22 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows to show a revolving door.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of the revolving door shown in Fig. 2 and of apparatus for looking the door.

Fig. 4 is a view taken approximately on the line 4-4.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1, this view however showing the revolving door locked whereas Fig. 1 shows the door unlocked.

Fig. 6 is an end elevation looking in the direction of the arrows 6 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a section taken approximately on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 7 but shows an opposite position of the rotatable drawer; and

Fig. 9 is a perspective View of the rotatable drawer shown in Figs. '7 and 8 and of associated parts at the bank tellers counter. a

Referring to the drawings for a more detailed description thereof, the numeral 10 indicates the tellers room, 11 being the counter, and 12 and 13 being different spaced series of spaced bars resting on the tellers counter. The bars 13 are in staggered relation to the bars 12 so that the teller may not be held up by a bandit.

When a depositor wishes to deposit money or to receive money, he announces his presence, whereupon the teller by means of a crank 15 turns towards the depositor a rotatably mounted box 16, this box being shown herein as having the form of a sector, which is enclosed by a casing 17 and the counter 11, the casing 1''! as well as the drawer 16a being below the counter. The counter 11 is cut away as clearly shown in Fig.

' 9, a pair of closure members 18 and 19 provided (Cl. Z0-18) with handles 20 and 21, respectively, being pivotally mounted on the counter 11 and adapted to close the cut away portion of the counter and to be opened when money and/or papers and books are to be taken out of the drawer. The casing 17 is secured at 17a and 17b to the vertical portion 11a of the counter 11. It will be understood that after the depositor has placed money and/ or papers in the drawer, the teller, by means of the crank 15, turns the drawer around to himself in order to withdraw the objects in the drawer.

A depositor, in order to approach the tellers cage, must enter a cage 20 through a revolving door 21 which may be locked and unlocked by the teller from his cage by means of the following mechanism. A square prism 23 secured to the top of the door 21 is engaged on opposite sides by bars 24 and 25 which, when the door is not locked, are sufficiently resilient to allow the revolving door to be turned so that a depositor may enter the cage 20 and approach the tellers cage. In order to lock the door a clamp or yoke 26 prevents the bars 24 and 25 from being spread apart by an attempted movement to turn the door. The clamped bars 24 and 25 thus prevent the door from being turned, or in other words, lock the same. The bars 24 and 25 are secured to an upright member 27 secured to and rising from the cage 20.

The yoke or clamp 26 is part of a lever 28 pivotally mounted at 29 on the upright 27, as shown in Fig. 1. The lever 28 carries a weight 28a. A member 30 is secured to and rises above the lever 28 and is secured to an elongate flexible member 31, such as a chain, which passes over a pulley 32 mounted on a bracket 33 within the tellers cage, the other end of the flexible member being secured to a projection 35 extending from a lever 36 having a handle 37. The lever 36 is frictionally held between spaced members 39, which are spaced from each other and secured to the bracket 33. The lever 36, in the vertical position shown in Fig. 1, holds the yoke or clamp 26 above and therefore disengaged from the bars 24 and 25 so that the revolving door 21 is unlocked.

In the event that a bandit enters the cage 20, he may be trapped therein by the locking of the revolving door, which locking is effected by the teller pulling towards him the lever 36, which movement of the latter allows the lever 28 to fall so that the clamp 26 engages the locking bars 24 and 25.

fled angular movement, and means normally spaced from but engageable with said bars adjacent their free extremities to prevent spreading of the same and hence prevent rotation of said member and said door.

LUDWIG RICHARD sTADTLER. 

